wipe

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /waɪp/ Rhymes: -aɪp === Etymology 1 === From Middle English wipen, from Old English wīpian (“to wipe, rub, cleanse”), from Proto-West Germanic *wīpōn (“to wipe”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyp- (“to twist, wind around”). Cognate with German wippen (“to bob”), Swedish veva (“to turn, wind, crank”), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍀𐌰𐌽 (weipan, “to wreathe, crown”), Old English swīfan (“to revolve, sweep, wend, intervene”), Sanskrit वेपते (vépate, “to tremble”). More at swivel, swift. ==== Verb ==== wipe (third-person singular simple present wipes, present participle wiping, simple past and past participle wiped) (transitive) To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.) (transitive) To smear (a substance) with this kind of motion. (transitive) To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out. (ambitransitive) To clean (the anus, buttocks and/or genitals) after defecation or urination. (transitive, computing) To erase. (transitive, plumbing) To make (a joint, as between pieces of lead pipe), by surrounding the junction with a mass of solder, applied in a plastic condition by means of a rag with which the solder is shaped by rubbing. (figurative) To remove an expression from one's face. (transitive) To deperm (a ship). (media) To perform a transition in which one scene or slide is replaced with another over time along a horizontal axis, as if one scene or slide is a layer being slid off the other. (UK, slang, obsolete) To hit or strike. (obsolete) To cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out. ===== Translations ===== ==== Noun ==== wipe (plural wipes) The act of wiping something. A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping. Hyponym: wet wipe (UK, slang, obsolete) A handkerchief. A kind of film transition where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another or with a special shape. Synonym: wipeoff (obsolete) A sarcastic remark; a reproof, a jibe. 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 273: I could not help giving Metcalfe a wipe for his lamentations, observing I should have thought he had enough to attend to at home. (UK, slang, obsolete) A blow or swipe; the act of striking somebody or something. ===== Translations ===== ==== Derived terms ==== === Etymology 2 === Compare Swedish vipa, Danish vibe (“lapwing”). ==== Noun ==== wipe (plural wipes) A lapwing, especially a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus). === Etymology 3 === From wipe out (verb) and wipeout (noun) by shortening. ==== Verb ==== wipe (third-person singular simple present wipes, present participle wiping, simple past and past participle wiped) (intransitive, roleplaying games, video games) To have all members of a party die in a single campaign, event, or battle; to be wiped out. ==== Noun ==== wipe (plural wipes) (roleplaying games, video games) An instance of all members of a party dying in a single campaign, event, or battle; a wipeout. Synonym: TPK ===== Derived terms ===== party wipe == Middle English == === Verb === wipe alternative form of wipen